Green Flash Nut Brown Ale

Brewed by Green Flash Brewing Co.
Style: Brown Ale
Vista, California USA

Bottle from santa: Pours a medium brown color with a nice sized white head. Some pretty good lacing. Aroma somewhat nutty, caramel. Flavor some roastyness, a little nutty, not much in the way of bitterness. Dry finish. Pleasent and drinkable, but there isn’t much going on here.

Bottle... Clear, burnt orange ale with a mid-sized, fizzy, beige head. Good retention. Toasted pistachios, cashews and milk chocolate in the nose. The flavor is perfectly balanced with only a little chocolate offered up; otherwise, nondescript. Light-bodied with a spritzy mouthfeel. Short, chocolatey, crisp finish.

12 oz bottle. Pours brown with a rather decent tan head that left decent lacing. Aromas were nice roasty chocolate with some nuts. Flavors were good at first with a really nutty roasty start. But by the finish that brown ale flavor I don’t like took over. I guess it is good if you like brown ales. Not my favorite style.

Pours dark copper with a one-finger off-white head. One of the nuttiest aromas I’ve come across. Toffee and biscuit are present, as well, and a touch of diacetyl gives this one an appropriate English character. Fairly standard Brown Ale flavor: nutty and sweet, with the slightest hop bitterness on the finish. Sessionable, not laudable.

Bottle. Beer is a very dark warm brown color with a small, frothy, light brown, mostly diminishing head. The aroma is malty with heavy notes of roasted grain, sweet roasted almond, cookie and caramel, light note of cereal/puppy chow that rises up as the beer opens up; Hoppy with a light note of herb, honeysuckle flower; Yeasty with a light note of dough. The flavor is moderately sweet, moderately acidic and lightly bitter with a short, lightly acidic, lightly sweet finish. The body is light, the texture is watery and the carbonation is lively.

Bottle. Head is initially small, frothy, light brown, mostly diminishing. Body is medium brown. Aroma is lightly to moderately malty (toasted bread, nuts, caramel), lightly hoppy (flowers). Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly to moderately bitter. Light to medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. Plain joe brown ale...watery, simple, by the numbers.

12 oz bottle. Pours to a beautiful, bright, chestnut brown color, with a soapy, tan head, and a moderate carbonation. The nose on this beer is very inviting, with lots of good sweet and nutty malt aromas, paired with some mild, flowery hop aroma. The palate is firm with good biscuit, sweet, and nutty malt flavor. This beer finishes with more good nutty malt flavors, then ends with some mild hop bitterness to take the cloying edge off this beer. True to style, and a very well done domestic example of a classic British brown ale. A great session beer, and one that is a fantastic match with a number of dishes, from pub grub, to fish and chips, to a nice grilled NY strip.

Bottle poured a clear dark reddish brown with a small diminishing amber head. Aromas of dark bread, cocoa, nuts and a hint of toffee. Palate was medium bodied. Flavors of cocoa, carmel, light nuttiness and a faint hint of dark fruit with a smooth semisweet finish.